AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +53%

4.372 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Mar 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP104

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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